Chapter III: Section IV: The Manor

1. Extent of the manor of Havering, 1306-7 56

2. Extracts from the Court Rolls of the manor of Bradford,
1349-58 65

3. Deed illustrating the distribution of strips, 1397 76

4. Regulation of the common fields of Wimeswould, _c._ 1425 76

5. Lease of a manor to the tenants, 1279 79

6. Grant of a manor to the customary tenants at fee farm,
_ante_ 1272 81

7. Lease of manorial holdings, 1332 82

8. An agreement between lord and tenants, 1386 84

9. Complaints against a reeve, 1278 84

10. An eviction from copyhold land, _temp._ Henry IV.-Henry VI 85

11. Statute of Merton, 1235-6 87

12. An enclosure allowed, 1236-7 88

13. An enclosure disallowed, 1236-7 89

14. A villein on ancient demesne dismissed to his lord's
court, 1224 89

15. Claim to be on ancient demesne defeated, 1237-8 90

16. The little writ of right, 1390 91

17. Villeinage established, 1225 92

18. Freedom and freehold established, 1236-7 93

19. A villein pleads villeinage on one occasion and denies it
on another, 1220 93

20. An assize allowed to a villein, 1225 95

21. A freeman holding in villeinage, 1228 96

22. Land held by charter recovered from the lord, 1227 97

23. The manumission of a villein, 1334 97

24. Grant of a bondman, 1358 98

25. Imprisonment of a gentleman claimed as a bondman,
1447 98

26. Claim to a villein, _temp._ Henry IV-Henry VI 100

27. The effect of the Black Death, 1350 102

28. Accounts of the Iron Works of South Frith before and
after the Black Death, 1345-50 103

29. The Peasants' Revolt, 1381 105